. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jan 9.

Published in final edited form as: Cancer Causes Control. 2016 Mar 17;27(5):607–613. doi: 10.1007/s10552-016-0734-5

Table 2.

Incidence of cancer in Mountain View CA neighborhood^a, 1988–1995, 1996–2005, and 2006–2011

	1988–1995				1996–2005				2006–2011^b
	Observed	Expected^c	SIR^d	99 % CI^e	Observed	Expected^c	SIR^d	99 % CI^e	Observed	Expected^a	SIR^c	99 % CI^e
Non-Hodgkin lymphoma	12	9.3	1.3	(0.5–2.6)	31	17.1	1.8	(1.1–2.8)	17	12.8	1.3	(0.6–2.4)
Kidney cancer^f	5	4.2	1.2	(0.3–3.4)	10	7.7	1.3	(0.5–2.8)	8	8.7	0.9	(0.3–2.1)
Liver cancer^f	<5	<5	0.8	(0.1–2.8)	8	8.8	0.9	(0.3–2.1)	5	8.6	0.6	(0.1–1.6)

1988–1995: Census Tracts 5,092.01 and 5,091.04 (1990 US Census); 1996–2005 Census Tracts: 5,092.01, 5,091.08 and 5,091.09 (2000 US Census); 2006–2011 Census Tracts: 5,092.01, 5,091.08 and 5,091.09 (2010 US Census)

Data for 2011 diagnoses are approximately 98 % complete, with about 3 % of cases not yet geocoded to a residential census tract

Expected rates were obtained from the Santa Clara region (Monterey, San Benito, Santa Clara and Santa Cruz counties)

SIR = standardized incidence ratio = observed number of cases/expected number of cases. The exact value of the number of expected cases is used in computing the SIR

If the 99 % confidence interval (CI) for the SIR contains 1, then any difference between the observed and expected number is not statistically significant

Kidney cancer includes cancers of the kidney and renal pelvis; liver cancer includes cancers of the liver, gallbladder, intrahepatic, and extrahepatic bile ducts